Defiant gardens : making gardens in wartime

by: Helphand, Kenneth I

Publication date: 2006

Topics: Gardens -- History -- 20th century, Gardens and war -- History -- 20th century, Jardins -- Histoire -- 20e siècle, Jardins et guerre -- Histoire -- 20e siècle, Gardens, Gardens and war, Garten, Trädgårdar -- historia -- 1900-talet, Krig -- 1900-talet, Krieg

Publisher: San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; digital-library-of-japanese-american-incarceration; americana

Digitizing sponsor: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program

Contributor: Densho

Language: English

xiv, 303 pages : 26 cm

"Proving that gardens are far more than peaceful respites from the outside world, Defiant Gardens is a thought-provoking analysis of why people build and work in gardens. Helphand portrays the dramatic range of circumstances in which people have created gardens - as a means of nourishment, as a pursuit of beauty, and as an expression of hope. Informative and inspirational, this history of gardens during wartime documents how gardens have humanized landscapes and experience, even under the most dire conditions."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-287) and index

War and gardens -- Trench gardens : the Western Front in World War I -- Ghetto gardens : Nazi Europe, 1939-44 -- Barbed-wire gardens : Allied prisoners of war and civilian internees in Europe and Asia in the world wars -- Stone gardens : Japanese American internment camps, 1942-45 -- Postwar : gardens after the war -- Digging deeper : the spriit of defiant gardens

Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award, 2007